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Composer, songwriter ("Mule Train"), author, violinist, violist and publisher, educated at the Columbia School of Music and the Chicago Musical College, and a violin student of Harry Diamond, Ludwig Becker, Richard Czerwonky, and Victor Young. He was a violinist in dance bands and symphony orchestras, later joining the NBC staff in New York and a violinist in the orchestras (and as soloist) of Broadway musicals. Later he conducted his own orchestra and wrote special material. He was a first violinist in film-studio orchestras for twenty years, and had his own recording and publishing companies. Joining ASCAP in 1949, his chief musical collaborators included Hy Heath, Johnny Lange, and Charles Newman. His other popular-song compositions include "Little Old Band of Gold", "Two Brothers" and "Angel of Mine".